In accordance with the plan, the university will hire a full-time professional to develop human relations training programs for employee supervisors. Hoping to encourage administrators to deal with workers equitably, Cornell will test supervisors' human relations skills yearly.

The plan also encourages administrators to take early action in suspected cases of sexism and racism.

The university will encourage minorities and women to participate in the campus government. STANFORD

University Invests in Latest Venture Of Former Apple Chairman

Stanford University this month invested $658,000 in Next Inc., the latest business venture of former Apple Computer Chairman Steven Jobs, The Stanford Daily reported.

Jobs, Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot, Carnegie Mellon University, and the employees of Next have invested in the company's effort to develop a microcomputer directed toward the needs of higher education.

Jobs will be working with the two schools "to produce a scholar's work station--a high-performance, low-cost computer," Stanford Vice President for Business and Finance William Massy told The Daily.

Both Stanford and Carnegie Mellon now own one-half of one percent of Next. Jobs will permit no more universities to invest in the company.

Even before Stanford invested in Next, it had for nine months been informing the company of what it believes are higher education's computer needs.

"[Jobs] will use some Stanford research and we will participate in software development," Massy said. COLUMBIA

Outsiders Will Manage Endowment

Columbia University has announced a radical change in its investment policy, planning to have firms and individuals outside the school handle up to 90 percent of its $1.1 billion endowment, The Spectator reported.

Until now, Columbia's investment office has controlled two-thirds of the school's endowment.

Outside money managers "bring a particular expertise and style you're not able to get inside [the investment office]" said Vice President for Investments Roberta Weil, who refused to identify who the new investment managers are.